"It should be for you," I said, "to learn to shiver, like the boy in the
fairy tale."
"I cannot", he answered, with a peculiar quiet smile; "and yet prisons,
above all places, should be haunted."
* * * * *
Very shortly after his arrival I was called to the cell of the medium,
F----. He suffered, by his own statement, from severe pains in the head.
I found the man to be nervous, anemic; his manner characterized by a sort
of hysterical effrontery.
"Send me to the infirmary", he begged. "This isn't punishment, but
torture."
"What are your symptoms?"
"I see things; my case has no comparison with others. To a man of my
super-sensitiveness close confinement is mere cruelty."